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1. A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

PG | 108 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

6.8
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62 Metascore

When a massive fire kills their parents, three children are delivered to the custody of cousin and stage actor Count Olaf, who is secretly plotting to steal their parents' vast fortune.

Director: Brad Silberling | Stars: Jim Carrey, Jude Law, Meryl Streep, Liam Aiken

Votes: 221,179 | Gross: $118.63M

2. The Wicker Man (1973)

R | 88 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

7.5
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87 Metascore

A puritan police sergeant arrives in a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl, who the pagan locals claim never existed.

Director: Robin Hardy | Stars: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Britt Ekland

Votes: 92,367 | Gross: $0.06M

3. Young Guns (1988)

R | 107 min | Action, Drama, Western

6.8
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50 Metascore

A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted.

Director: Christopher Cain | Stars: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen

Votes: 68,081 | Gross: $45.66M

4. High Noon (1952)

PG | 85 min | Drama, Thriller, Western

8.0
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89 Metascore

A town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at "high noon" when the gang leader, an outlaw he "sent up" years ago, arrives on the noon train.

Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges

Votes: 110,225 | Gross: $9.45M

5. Let Him Go (2020)

R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

6.7
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63 Metascore

A retired sheriff and his wife, grieving over the death of their son, set out to find their only grandson.

Director: Thomas Bezucha | Stars: Diane Lane, Kevin Costner, Kayli Carter, Ryan Bruce

Votes: 34,962

6. Date Movie (2006)

PG-13 | 83 min | Comedy, Romance

2.8
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11 Metascore

Spoof of romantic comedies which focuses on a man, his crush, his parents, and her father.

Directors: Aaron Seltzer, Jason Friedberg | Stars: Alyson Hannigan, Adam Campbell, Fred Willard, Jennifer Coolidge

Votes: 62,241 | Gross: $48.55M

7. The Five-Year Engagement (2012)

R | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

6.2
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62 Metascore

One year after meeting, Tom proposes to his girlfriend, Violet, but unexpected events keep tripping them up as they look to walk down the aisle together.

Director: Nicholas Stoller | Stars: Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Chris Pratt, Alison Brie

Votes: 102,582 | Gross: $28.84M

8. A Star Is Born (1954)

Passed | 154 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

7.5
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89 Metascore

A film star helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford

Votes: 19,687 | Gross: $14.93M

9. A Summer Place (1959)

Approved | 130 min | Drama, Romance

6.9
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A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.

Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee, Arthur Kennedy

Votes: 3,854

10. Alice in Wonderland (1999 TV Movie)

PG | 150 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

6.3
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Alice falls down a rabbit hole, and finds herself in Wonderland, a fantasy land of strange characters and ideas.

Director: Nick Willing | Stars: Tina Majorino, Whoopi Goldberg, Robbie Coltrane, Ben Kingsley

Votes: 8,866

11. A Star Is Born (1937)

Passed | 111 min | Drama, Romance

7.3
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77 Metascore

A young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.

Directors: William A. Wellman, Jack Conway, Victor Fleming | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, May Robson

Votes: 10,898 | Gross: $4.36M

12. Breakfast for Two (1937)

Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Romance

6.4
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Texan debutante Valentine Ransome tries to reform a bankrupt playboy.

Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, Glenda Farrell, Eric Blore

Votes: 1,183

13. The Great Silence (1968)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Western

7.7
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A mute gunfighter defends a young widow and a group of outlaws against a gang of bounty killers in the winter of 1898, and a grim, tense struggle unfolds.

Director: Sergio Corbucci | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Frank Wolff, Vonetta McGee

Votes: 18,113 | Gross: $0.05M

14. Gun Crazy (1950)

Passed | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

7.6
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74 Metascore

Two disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree.

Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: John Dall, Peggy Cummins, Berry Kroeger, Morris Carnovsky

Votes: 14,856

15. Ball of Fire (1941)

Approved | 111 min | Comedy, Romance

7.7
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78 Metascore

A group of professors working on a new encyclopedia while living in a Manhattan mansion take in a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover.

Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka, Henry Travers

Votes: 14,065

16. The Fortune (1975)

PG | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

5.6
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58 Metascore

Two bumbling hustlers in the 1920s attempt to gain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop them, not even murder.

Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Stockard Channing, Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Florence Stanley

Votes: 3,162

17. Homicidal (1961)

Unrated | 88 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

6.8
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The brutal stabbing murder of a justice-of-the-peace sparks an investigation of dark family secrets in a sleepy small town in Southern California.

Director: William Castle | Stars: Glenn Corbett, Patricia Breslin, Eugenie Leontovich, Alan Bunce

Votes: 3,783

18. Four's a Crowd (1938)

Approved | 93 min | Comedy, Romance

6.3
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Robert will do anything to get the big account that has eluded him. His public relations business makes public angels of rich scoundrels. Jean needs someone to save the paper and she wants Robert.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Rosalind Russell, Patric Knowles

Votes: 1,333

19. Libeled Lady (1936)

Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Romance

7.8
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When a socialite sues a big paper for libel, the editor responsible calls in the help of his ignored fiancée and a former employee to frame her and make the false story seem true.

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy

Votes: 8,922

20. My Sister's Keeper (2002 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 97 min | Drama

6.0
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Two sisters take a journey of discovery and reconciliation based on the memoirs of Margaret Moorman. Christine has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and must rely on others for support even... See full summary »

Director: Ron Lagomarsino | Stars: Kathy Bates, Elizabeth Perkins, Clark Gregg, Kathleen Wilhoite

Votes: 466

21. Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)

Passed | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

6.5
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Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.

Director: King Vidor | Stars: Richard Todd, Ruth Roman, Mercedes McCambridge, Zachary Scott

Votes: 1,445

22. Stay Away, Joe (1968)

PG | 102 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

4.5
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A mixed-race American Indian rodeo champ returns to the reservation to help his people out.

Director: Peter Tewksbury | Stars: Elvis Presley, Burgess Meredith, Joan Blondell, Katy Jurado

Votes: 1,528

23. The Boy from Oklahoma (1954)

Approved | 87 min | Western

6.0
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Corrupt mayor Barney Turlock appoints lawyer-wannabe greenhorn Tom Brewster as sheriff but regrets his choice when Brewster becomes efficient at fighting crime and solves the murder of the previous sheriff.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Will Rogers Jr., Nancy Olson, Lon Chaney Jr., Anthony Caruso

Votes: 463 | Gross: $1.40M

24. Brides of Christ (1991)

Drama

8.2
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Diane, a young woman growing up in Australia in the mid 1960s, walks away from her fiancé to join a convent after being sure she has a calling to the faith. The Catholic Church and its ... See full summary »

Stars: Brenda Fricker, Sandy Gore, Josephine Byrnes, Lisa Hensley

Votes: 701

25. No Man of Her Own (1950)

Passed | 98 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance

7.3
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A pregnant woman adopts the identity of a railroad-crash victim and starts a new life with the woman's wealthy in-laws, but is soon blackmailed by her devious ex.

Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Jane Cowl, Phyllis Thaxter

Votes: 2,903

26. The Clock (1945)

Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

7.3
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In 1945, during a 48-hour leave, a soldier accidentally meets a girl at Pennsylvania Station and spends his leave with her, eventually falling in love with the lovely New Yorker.

Directors: Vincente Minnelli, Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason, Keenan Wynn

Votes: 4,048 | Gross: $2.78M

27. In This Our Life (1942)

Approved | 97 min | Drama

7.3
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The day before her wedding, a pampered young woman absconds with her sister's husband. Her sister begins seeing the woman's former fiancé.

Directors: John Huston, Raoul Walsh | Stars: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, George Brent, Dennis Morgan

Votes: 5,263

28. Remember the Night (1939)

Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

7.6
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78 Metascore

Love blooms between a sympathetic attorney and the comely shoplifter he has taken home for the Christmas holiday.

Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi, Elizabeth Patterson

Votes: 7,195 | Gross: $0.17M

29. Son of Dracula (1943)

Unrated | 80 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

6.1
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When Katherine, a beautiful Southern girl obsessed with thoughts of eternal life, invites Count Alucard to come to her mansion in the U.S., she unleashes a Pandora's box of horror on unsuspecting relatives and neighbors.

Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Robert Paige, Louise Allbritton, Evelyn Ankers

Votes: 6,202

30. Millie (1931)

Passed | 85 min | Drama, Romance

6.2
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Millie's life begins to crumble when she finds out her husband is having an affair.

Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, Lilyan Tashman, Robert Ames, James Hall

Votes: 857

31. The Big Bounce (1969)

R | 102 min | Drama

5.4
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A Vietnam veteran and ex-con is persuaded by a shady woman to rob a $50,000 payroll account on a California produce farm. But who is playing who?

Director: Alex March | Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Leigh Taylor-Young, Van Heflin, Lee Grant

Votes: 461

32. We're Not Married! (1952)

Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Romance

6.4
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In separate stories, five couples learn that they are not legally married.

Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe, Victor Moore, Fred Allen

Votes: 2,291

33. The Monster and the Girl (1941)

Passed | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

6.0
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After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.

Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Ellen Drew, Robert Paige, Paul Lukas, Joseph Calleia

Votes: 756

34. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1943)

Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Romance, War

7.6
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86 Metascore

After an all-night send-off party for the troops, a small-town girl with an awkward boyfriend wakes up to find herself married and pregnant, but with no memory of her husband's identity.

Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, William Demarest

Votes: 7,946

35. It Happened Tomorrow (1944)

Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Fantasy

7.0
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A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.

Director: René Clair | Stars: Dick Powell, Linda Darnell, Jack Oakie, Edgar Kennedy

Votes: 2,860

36. The Unsuspected (1947)

Approved | 103 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery

7.2
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The secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy young niece disappears.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Claude Rains, Joan Caulfield, Audrey Totter, Constance Bennett

Votes: 3,636

37. Gunsight Ridge (1957)

Passed | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

6.3
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Stage line agent investigates a series of robberies by taking the job of a deputy sheriff in a border Arizona town.

Director: Francis D. Lyon | Stars: Joel McCrea, Mark Stevens, Joan Weldon, Addison Richards

Votes: 734

38. A Time for Dying (1969)

M | 72 min | Drama, Western

5.7
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In Silver City, naive farm boy Cass and newcomer saloon girl Nellie are married by Judge Roy Bean in a shotgun wedding but their honeymoon is marred by outlaws.

Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Richard Lapp, Anne Randall, Robert Random, Beatrice Kay

Votes: 711

39. High Noon (2000 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 88 min | Drama, Western

5.3
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On his last day in office, town marshal Will Kane gets married and plans to retire on a farm but news that paroled killer Frank Miller is coming to get revenge on Kane changes the marshal's retirement plans.

Director: Rod Hardy | Stars: Tom Skerritt, Susanna Thompson, Reed Diamond, Maria Conchita Alonso

Votes: 548

40. The Last Ride (2011)

PG-13 | 102 min | Biography, Drama, Music

5.8
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45 Metascore

At the end of 1952, with the best years of his career behind him, Hank Williams hires a local youth to drive him through the Appalachian countryside for a pair of New Year's Day shows in West Virginia and Ohio.

Director: Harry Thomason | Stars: Henry Thomas, Jesse James, Fred Thompson, Kaley Cuoco

Votes: 876

41. Period of Adjustment (1962)

Passed | 112 min | Comedy, Drama

6.2
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71 Metascore

A newlywed couple's honeymoon is disrupted by their friends' marital problems.

Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Anthony Franciosa, Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton, Lois Nettleton

Votes: 1,645

42. Belle of the Nineties (1934)

Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

6.3
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Ruby Carter, the American Beauty queen of the night club-sporting world, shifts her operations from St. Louis to New Orleans, mostly to get away from prizefighter Tiger Kid. Installed as ... See full summary »

Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Mae West, Roger Pryor, Johnny Mack Brown, John Miljan

Votes: 917

43. The Secret Fury (1950)

Approved | 85 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller

6.6
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A woman preparing to marry her fiance is accused of bigamy by a stranger but she fights back by trying to prove she's the victim of a conspiracy designed to discredit her.

Director: Mel Ferrer | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Robert Ryan, Jane Cowl, Paul Kelly

Votes: 1,311

44. Arizona (1940)

Passed | 125 min | Drama, Western

6.8
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In Tucson of the 1860s, a pioneer woman struggles to succeed in the freight and cattle business while at risk at the hands of corrupt and violent local businessmen and rampaging Indians.

Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Jean Arthur, William Holden, Warren William, Porter Hall

Votes: 1,490

45. The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)

Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Romance

6.9
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A financially-strapped charter pilot hires himself to an oil tycoon to kidnap his madcap daughter and prevent her from marrying a vapid band leader.

Director: William Keighley | Stars: James Cagney, Bette Davis, Stuart Erwin, Eugene Pallette

Votes: 3,734

46. The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940)

Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Romance

6.9
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A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.

Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Loretta Young, Ray Milland, Reginald Gardiner, Gail Patrick

Votes: 1,044

47. Gentle Giant (1967)

Approved | 95 min | Drama, Family

6.1
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A young boy befriends an orphaned cub and raises him to adult-bearhood. This fine family feature. based on Walt Morey's novel "Gentle Ben," was the basis for the "Gentle Ben" television series.

Director: James Neilson | Stars: Dennis Weaver, Vera Miles, Ralph Meeker, Clint Howard

Votes: 215

48. Two Seconds (1932)

67 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

6.9
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A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Vivienne Osborne, Guy Kibbee, Preston Foster

Votes: 1,301

49. Jimmy the Gent (1934)

Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

6.6
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An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: James Cagney, Bette Davis, Allen Jenkins, Alan Dinehart

Votes: 2,035

50. The Light of Western Stars (1940)

Passed | 64 min | Drama, Western

5.5
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Cowhand Ladd dances with cantina girl Estrella and has a part in shooting Sheriff Tyler.

Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Victor Jory, Jo Ann Sayers, Russell Hayden, Morris Ankrum

Votes: 203



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